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Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 14 Mar 2000 00:02:46 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera+saynotospam+.com
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Skipped most of it but picked on one thing.
James Brown wrote:
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> Ok. Then what you're *really* saying, if I read right, is that christianity
> is more flawed than America. At which point, things get mucky very quickly,
> because it starts getting necessary to differentiate between the various
> motivators of 'flawed people who wreck havok'. Potayto, potahto.
No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that the basis for
christianity is flawed. The basis for capitalism, and the basis for
America, are not. Christianity will produce flawed people because of its
basis, but capitalism and America (idealized) may have flawed people
occur IN SPITE of the basis.
See the difference?
> Any system can be made to work, on any scale, if all the individuals therein
> accept it. All -isms have this same stumbling block.
Disagree. Some systems can be shown to never work when carried out
because they are flawed. Some systems get better, the closer you get to
ideal state. Some get worse. The ones that get worse are the ones where
the ideal state is flawed. Socialism, for example, cannot work in its
ideal state.
This is another facet of the first part I quoted and responded to.
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| Larry, Man, I really shouldn't get into this: Anyway, here is the start: < rant, babble, etc. (...) I am really trying not to grind my teeth, here, Larry, but you always had a spite against Christianity, which is fine, I have my own spites on issues (...) (24 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I could argue this further, but we'd be getting away from traceable cause and effect, and getting really esoteric. (which is to say, getting into questions like 'Where does the concept of God come from' and 'Does the socio-political effect of (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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